

by Cretan Holidays
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Book on Viator Confirmed right away, but you pay full price.$185.26This 5-hour horseback riding tour in Crete takes riders through the Finikia and Giouchtas mountains, offering views of the rural landscape around Heraklion. Participants ride calm horses across natural terrain guided by a local expert. After the ride, the tour includes a lunch with refreshments. Hotel pickup and drop-off are provided for selected hotels.
After your arrival at the stables, you will be provided with basic training of riding and after this you are taken to the horses and get ready ride to the mountains. After riding, you will arrive on the top of the Finikia mountains and stop there. There you can have a soft drink, fruit, and you can take photos of the view, and the sleeping mountain of the Greek God Zeus (he was born in a cave on the Lassithi plateau but he is sleeping opposite the Finikia mountains, Archanes). After this pause, you will take the horses again, and go back to the stables, riding, and then, you will get a rich Cretan traditional lunch with home-made wine. When you finish lunch, you can sit out in the garden of the stables and have some more wine. At the end you will head back to the hotels or apartments.
300 min